Oddcast Selects NeoSpeech TTS; Adds US English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean

NeoSpeech and Oddcast announced that NeoSpeech's VoiceText Text-to-Speech engine has been integrated with Oddcast's VHost technology. By using VoiceText, Oddcast will be adding US English, Japanese, Chinese and Korean to its existing suite of 10 languages and enhancing its product reach to the Far East.

Oddcast's VHost software enables companies to bring Web and wireless content to life through conversational agents. By integrating NeoSpeech's Text-to-Speech technology, these conversational characters can interact with customers and employees via online advertising campaigns, customer service applications, e-learning systems, and mobile devices, and through many other technology driven platforms.

NeoSpeech's VoiceText generates natural-sounding voices from text input and offers the same Text-to-Speech solution across hand-held, desktop, laptop and network applications, while supporting a range of industry standard operating systems.  Available in several languages, VoiceText can process any size or type of text, in applications ranging from telephone access to information or personal email, to reading complete news stories.